Elie Wiesel Quotes

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't fall.

But nothing seems to do any good.

I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

What's the bleedin' point?

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.